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Foreign Secretary is travelling to Kosovo to meet UK personnel deployed to NATO’s peacekeeping mission, and to underline UK support for stability in the region.

• Updated: 3 January 2024

UK statement on latest developments in the north of Kosovo - 15 June 2023

• Updated: 16 June 2023

At the Peace Support Operations Training Centre in Sarajevo, Baroness Goldie noted that strong partnerships will help create a better future for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Updated: 4 January 2022

UK Ambassador Rachel Galloway signed an agreement to set up the Western Balkans Land Regional Coordination Cell in North Macedonia to coordinate UK training in the region

• Updated: 26 July 2021

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has commented on the appeals judgment by the IRMCT in the case of Radovan Karadžić.

• Updated: 20 March 2019

Ambassador Alison Kemp spoke at the Western Balkan's Foreign Minister's meeting.

• Updated: 8 December 2018

Statement by Ambassador Karen Pierce, UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the Security Council briefing on Kosovo.

• Updated: 14 November 2018

The fifth Western Balkans Summit concluded on 10 July with the signing of joint declarations on Good Neighbourly Relations, War Crimes and Missing Persons.

• Updated: 11 July 2018

Sir Alan Duncan visited Sarajevo for high-level talks with Foreign Ministers from across the Western Balkans.

• Updated: 16 March 2018

The Prime Minister welcomed the Heads of Government of 6 Western Balkans countries to Downing Street today for talks ahead of the Western Balkans Summit in London in July.

• Updated: 26 February 2018

Mr Matthew Field has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Updated: 31 January 2018

The Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary met today (Thursday 12 October) with their Polish counterparts for talks on security and defence co-operation.

• Updated: 12 October 2017

The Foreign Secretary will join forces with the UK’s allies to continue to help the Western Balkans reform, stabilise and prosper, as he attends a European summit in Trieste, Italy

• Updated: 12 July 2017

Prime Minister Theresa May gave a statement to Parliament on the March EU Council meeting and next steps in preparing to trigger Article 50.

• Updated: 14 March 2017

Prime Minister Theresa May gave a statement on subjects covered at the European Council meeting: migration, the Western Balkans, and Brexit.

• Updated: 9 March 2017

The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, visited Berlin to meet German Foreign Minister Frank Steinmeier

• Updated: 4 November 2016

Additional funding will enhance security forces in Lebanon and help to improve regional stability

• Updated: 23 March 2016

Conference organised in cooperation with the British Council, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration and Delegation of the European Union within the Project "Communicating EU Accession and IPA Assistance i…

• Updated: 10 December 2015

Statement by Ambassador Matthew Rycroft of the UK Mission to the UN at the Security Council Meeting on Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Updated: 10 November 2015

The Minister for Europe updated parliament on the Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs (Defence) and General Affairs Councils on 18 – 19 May

• Updated: 1 June 2015